Benchmark Almanac

WebTailBench

MolmoWeb 8B 49.5% leads since Mar 2026 Fading

Computer-use agents complete 609 hand-verified tasks on live websites across 11 categories, such as bookings, real estate and job search. A companion set of 111 harmful tasks tests refusals.

Released with Fara-7B. On 2026-05-12 Microsoft added a V2 split that refreshes calendar-bound task strings and rubrics for the same 609 tasks. The maker does not say V2 scores differ, so it stays one record.

Made by Microsoft Released Nov 2025 Web browsing All tasks public Last in a launch post May 2026 , dropped before it saturated Last model added Jun 2026
Level
Everyday Most adults, without training
Scored
Graded by a model A language model scores each response, usually against a rubric.
Answers
Agent task Many steps in a terminal, browser, desktop, app, game or robot.
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Models scored in lab cards
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Launch posts list it, from 2 labs
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System cards report it, from 2 labs

MolmoWeb 8B leads with 49.5% among models released by May 2026

Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.

The newest model with a score here came out in May 2026, and nobody has reported a newer one. Among the 20 highest-ranked models on the capability index, these have no score yet:

  1. 1 MolmoWeb 8B 49.5%
  2. 2 Fara1.5-27B 40.2%
  3. 3 Fara-7B 38.4%
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 MolmoWeb 8B 49.5% Mar 2026 Model card
2 Fara1.5-27B 40.2% May 2026 Model card
3 Fara-7B 38.4% Nov 2025 Model card

2 models have held number one since its release in Nov 2025

Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release.

Microsoft Ai2
Lab claims Not tested since Jun 2026
MolmoWeb 8B 49.5%

Scores over time

All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.

Reported by the lab in its model card Best so far
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) MolmoWeb 8B Fara-7B 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) MolmoWeb 8B Fara-7B

Labs headline it less often now, last in May 2026

Launch posts from every lab that has listed it, one tick per post. Tall colored ticks include it, and short gray ones leave it out.

Microsoft
Ai2
DateLaunch postScoreAs the post writes it
21 May 2026 Fara1.5-27B 40.2 WebTailBench
24 Mar 2026 MolmoWeb 8B 49.5 WebTailBench
24 Nov 2025 Fara-7B 38.4 WebTailBench

3 system cards report it, from 2 labs

Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.

DateDocumentScoreAs the document writes itSection
18 Jun 2026 Fara1.5-27B technical report 40.2 WebTailBench v1.5 Outcome Success, refreshed tasks and adapted critical-point verifier, 95% CI 3.0. Process Success 72.9 (Tables 3 and 7) Capabilities
9 Apr 2026 MolmoWeb 8B technical report 49.5 WebTailBench, scored with the WebVoyager judge, 100 steps (Table 4) Capabilities
24 Nov 2025 Fara-7B technical report 38.4 WebTailBench success rate, mean of 3 runs, macro and micro average both 38.4 over 11 segments (Table 9, Table 11) Capabilities

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